How has George W. Bush affected your life?

[obtheatre]

It has been nearly eight years since George W. Bush took office and in that time much has changed across the American landscape. How has your life changed since George W. Bush became President? Have you been directly affected by the tragedies of 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina? Have you or a loved one served in Iraq or Afghanistan? Has the housing foreclosure crisis hit too close to your home? How are you coping with $4 a gallon gasoline and rising food costs? How are you surviving?
How is your America 2008 different from your America 2001? Are you better or worse off? Do you blame/credit the President?

We are small theater outside of Pittsburgh, PA, assembling stories from real people to tell the story of where America is today. These stories will be worked into monologues to be presented as an evening of live political theater.

We are looking for your TRUE personal story – a one to two page monologue of how your life has been affected or changed by the past eight years under the Bush administration – told in the first person. And we are not just interested in the negative – if your situation has improved or you have been changed for the better, we’d like to hear those stories as well.

Be bold, be brave, be honest. Let your voice be heard. Although there is no monetary compensation for chosen monologues, authors will be credited in the program (i.e. John Smith of Tulsa, OK) and a copy of the program will be mailed to them.

Send to [email protected] . No attachments, please. Deadline is August 15, 2008. Thank you for your submission. If we choose to use your story, you will be notified by August 31, 2008. Help spread the word and please pass this along to any friends who may be interested in telling their story.

[Dissent Is Patriotic]

1. He has taught me that you can hate someone you do not

actually know.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. That is almost the exact same thing I was going to post.

I never knew I was capable of despising anyone as much as I despise prez shit-for-brains.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Same Here

Well, i shouldn't say that. I knew i was going to hate him when he was still a failure as governor of Texas. That silverspoon twit was born to be hated. So, i guess it didn't affect my life because i knew i was going to hate him, but i share your sentiment.
The Professor

[krispos42]

2. I can't know

Remember, it's all secret. Because an overweight divorced white guy with a 3-year-old son an an 8-year-old cat might just go fuckin' nuts and take over the country.

Or decided to have nachos for lunch.


Mmmm... nachos...

[lpbk2713]

4. Made me aware how easy it is to corrupt the voting process.

Anyone with the right technology and with evil intent can subvert an election and get away with it.

Katherine Harris and all the BushCo criminals will have their day yet. Count on it.

[underseasurveyor]

5. The one good thing drunky mcdumbass did for me

Is... he woke my sleepy ass UP.

[Blue Belle]

6. My hatred of/frustration with him and his croanies...

was the catalyst for my return to college. I want to help reverse his policies and work for candidates and causes that will ensure that power grabbing such as his will never happen again. He made me realize how fragile our democracy is.

[HEyHEY]

7. I had to get a passport to go to your country

[Imagevision]

8. He's killed a loved one from over 4100 families...

[Greyhound]

9. Pre-shrub I paid from $40K - $50K a year in taxes, today I live below the poverty line.

Multiply me by the millions in similar straights and ask yourself who is making up that shortfall?

From an impersonal POV, before the defenders of fascism chime in claiming that I wasn't worth what I was making and the omniscient "market forces" have deemed us obsolete or over-paid, nobody is doing the jobs that I did, they are just letting it all fall apart.

[ceile]

10. Made me realize that truly selfish people do exist.

I always thought that the "I've got mine. Screw you!" people would step up and do the right thing if faced with poverty, racism, death, etc. But no. "Katrina victims deserved it." "You got what you deserved w/ that mortgage. Should have read the fine print." "I support the war, but my child is going to college." "Why are you selling your belongings to buy gas? Just get another job." etc. etc...

[wvbygod]

11. Four dollar gasoline and taking my shoes off at airports

Maybe some other higher prices elsewhere too. Other than that and the standard party
dislike of republicans there is not much else that has changed.

[Javaman]

12. Have have developed this affliction...

my foot, for some reason, has this overwhelming need to connect with morons* ass.

:rofl:

[DailyGrind51]

14. Even under Reagan, I did not hate Republicans as much as I do now.

Sure, they were irritating, but not nearly so doctrinaire and self-righteous. When I watched Bush stutter and stammer at press conferences and then hear Laura Ingram and Sean Hannity praise his speech the next day, I wondered if they heard the same speech that I did.